Word: ow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have Napoleon. No. That's his name. Can't talk English yet. I don't think his French's so good either. He sort of sings along and then he pops out Ow ould you zay tzrow eet eenzo low tzear. Yeah, just like that. Throw it into low gear, he meant. What do they get guys like that for? The class horses him all the time. You know Al? He's on pro, but he never comes to class, I just answer Here for him and Nap doesn't know the difference...
Sobbed Maudie Dallas: "They was as good tomatoes as yourn! 'Ow was I to know they weren't English...
...Ow, poor beggars...
...Indians were sent there - Sacs, Foxes, lowas, Pottawatomies. Also Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Then more Cherokees. Then some Kickapoos. In 1907, the Indian Territory was lumped with Oklahoma Territory and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan, cal ow politics. Of the seven Governors the state has had, six have been threatened with impeachment by bands of political freebooters who from time to time dominate Oklahoma. †Many sat or lay on the floor...
...radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...